Thursday, 2 october 2025.
Bosnia Jails Man for Planning Terror Attack on Mosque
Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023.
Bosnian Army Ex-Officer Charged with Killing Injured Croat Commander
Prosecutors accuse Serif Patkovic, a wartime Bosnian Army battalion commander, of shooting a wounded Bosnian Croat prisoner dead in the village of Dusina in 1993.
Bosnians Remember Deadly Shelling of Zenica, 30 Years On
Tributes have been paid to the victims of an artillery strike on the Bosnian town of Zenica in April 1993 that left 15 people dead, including a child – an...
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighter Acquitted of Abusing Prisoners of War
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Jukic was cleared of treating Bosniak prisoners of war inhumanely by assaulting them at a detention facility in Zepce in 1993.
Activists Place Memorial Plaques at Bosnian ‘Sites of Suffering’
Peace activists have installed plaques at sites where people were killed or imprisoned during the 1992-95 Bosnian war in the Zenica, Doboj and Zepce areas.
‘The Elderly Were Liquidated’: An Unprosecuted Bosnian Village Atrocity
In the second report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series about the Bosnian war, relatives of elderly Croats killed in the village of Susanj in 1993 demand to know why the...
Bosnian Ex-Prisoners Commemorate Wartime Camp Victims
Wartime prisoners marked the Day of Camp Inmates by gathering at former detention centres to commemorate those who died and to demand better treatment for those who survived.
No Deradicalisation Schemes for Bosnian Terror Convicts
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
Djerahovic and Saric Found Not Guilty
The cantonal court of Zenica has found Sedjad Djerahovic and Jasmin Saric, both former members of the Bosnian Army, not guilty of war crimes.